[gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages - Please cancel for now

[gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages - Please cancel for now

[billyd]

Thanks again Alan,

No I don't have genlop installed but I will try that.

In /var/log/portage, I didn't actually compare the contents of the duplicates 
so maybe there is nothing wrong there.

The elog/ directories on all three Gentoo installs are empty. Once I review 
the messages and take necessary action, I remove those entries.

You say I am using unstable python and stable portage. I am just running what 
~amd64 wants to emerge.  So I think you are suggesting I unmask unstable 
portage so it can be installed. If so, I will put that on my list of things to 
try.

I am beginning to wonder whether anything is actually wrong here. Usually, 
when I run in to some issue I find through the mailing lists, the forums, 
gentoo bugs or just google searches that someone else is experiencing the same 
thing.  So far, I have not seen anything about this.

Perhaps my lack of elog/ messages over the last few weeks is just the result 
that none of the emerged packages contain any messages that would be logged.

Thanks for you kind help. Please don't spend any more time with this . I'll 
play around with this including your suggestions. If the situation persists, I 
will re-post.  I don't rely on these installs for daily use anyway so I don't 
mind if I break something. I use Gentoo because I want to experiment with it 
and learn from the experience.

Your help is much appreciated.
billyd


 

Re: [gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages - Please cancel for now

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 24 April 2010 14:40:47 billyd wrote:
> Thanks again Alan,
> 
> No I don't have genlop installed but I will try that.
> 
> In /var/log/portage, I didn't actually compare the contents of the
> duplicates so maybe there is nothing wrong there.
> 
> The elog/ directories on all three Gentoo installs are empty. Once I review
> the messages and take necessary action, I remove those entries.
> 
> You say I am using unstable python and stable portage. I am just running
> what ~amd64 wants to emerge.  So I think you are suggesting I unmask
> unstable portage so it can be installed. If so, I will put that on my list
> of things to try.

Yes, you are right, I should have said "unmask portage". I've been sing 2.2 
for so long, I forget it's actually unmasked here, not just unstable.

It's worth using it, the 2.2 branch of portage does not cause all manner of 
weird things to need to also be unmasked, and you get the benefit of automatic 
blocker resolution, sets, and a few other things too.

> I am beginning to wonder whether anything is actually wrong here. Usually,
> when I run in to some issue I find through the mailing lists, the forums,
> gentoo bugs or just google searches that someone else is experiencing the
> same thing.  So far, I have not seen anything about this.

Well, quite a few people *did* have elog issues recently here.

I suppose you can be forgiven for making a perfectly reasonable assumption, 
even if it was wrong in the end :-)

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages - Please cancel for now

[billyd]

> Well, quite a few people *did* have elog issues recently here.
> 
> I suppose you can be forgiven for making a perfectly reasonable assumption,
> even if it was wrong in the end :-)

Thanks again, Alan,

I've been working with Gentoo for nearly 6 years now and try to resolve all my 
issues without asking for help. I still consider myself a newbie.  I feel I 
learn more by researching the issue. In fact, I think I only posted to the 
lists one time 4 to 5 years ago.

Being a retired investigator, I know I must consider all the evidence even if 
it proves my initial theory was wrong.  Here, the fact that no one else was 
reporting the same issue ( similar, yes, but not the same) led me to consider 
that I may not really have a problem, or that I may have somehow introduced 
the problem myself.  I knew that was unlike simply because I had not make any 
changes on my system.   For me, 2 weeks of -uNDv world and no entries in elog/ 
seemed unusual.  I did check for duplicate entries in /var/log/portage. Like 
you said, they were not identical - one was a summary and the other the 
complete log.

Don't know why I didn't think to do my test with the nvidia-drivers or some 
other package I know always puts a .log file in elog/ earlier.

I think I will unmask portage as you suggest and give it a try. That is why I 
have 3 Gentoo installs.  I try to keep one clear of problems and use it to 
sync off the Gentoo mirrors.  I sync the other 2 installs off the first one to 
save bandwith all around.  I use them to work out issues or try new things.

Your help, insight, suggestions are much appreciated.

billyd